We are waiting till the news and hype of Ep2 dies down to start our blitz. In the mean time he might as well code bug fixes.
but omg.. we need emergency friday patch!! wheedy is rite.. too many bugs in the bug tracker!! empires is hardly playable rite now!! WHEE NEED EMERGENCY FRIDAY PATCH OMG
Krenzo's explained before that initially RCs weren't supposed to go much beyond the 7th, and (after me querying) has said the the "Release Candidate" nature doesn't really apply. That said, i see RC now standing for "Re-worked Code" and i'm liking the regular release cycle as it appears the bug spotting/resolving appears to be getting done very quickly and effectively, so i say carry on! On a similar note: I noticed that there is (at time of writing) just one 1.07 server up, this figures as 1.08RC has moved so far away from 1.07 i really can't see anybody wanting to play <1.08RC. Hopefully this will mean a higher possibility of 56 player games.
Oh, there'll be a shitload of servers required, don't you worry about player numbers :p. Remember Emergence Day (lol shameless steal from Gears Of War)? All the servers were either completely full or completely empty (lol crashes)
